GRASS SICKNESS SURVEILLANCE SCHEME

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Grass Sickness Surveillance Scheme (Questionnaires)-

The new equine grass sickness surveillance scheme is being co-ordinated at the Animal Health Trust

You will have the choice of two different questionnaires-

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1.To report new cases of grass sickness
2.To provide your premises history of grass sickness since the year 2000

To fill out an on-line questionnaire:

http://www.equinegrasssickness.co.uk/
http://www.equinegrasssickness.co.uk/
www.equinegrasssickness.co.uk
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Hooray. By collecting data in this way hopefully work will be funded to eventually discover some kind of link or reason why this dreadful illness occurs and hopefully in time a cure or prevention will be discovered.

My thoughts are with all those owners of horses and ponies who have lost their lives due to this terrible disease. x
 
What absolutely stupid muppet wrote this!!!!Quote"Equine grass sickness (EGS) is recognised as a debilitating and invariably fatal disease of horses with cases occurring predominantly, but not exclusively, in northern European countries, particularly Great Britain" Invariably fatal. NO IT IS NOT. Chronic cases can often be saved with the correct care. This has really made me angry! Owners need all the help and moral support they can get without some idiot saying it is invariably fatal.
 
Frequently fatal. It is!!!!!!

This person is NOT stupid they are trying to help with current research. I have seen the affects GS has on my own horse (who was put down last month thank you very much!) and feel it is a very serious disease which needs a lot more research. I had to watch my horse rapidly deteriorate with a heart rate of 84, constantly muscle tremoring, diarrhea, dribbling, not eating, losing weight and looking so depressed.

The Animal Heath Trust State that:
“Equine grass sickness (EGS) is a frequently fatal disease of horses with a mortality rate in excess of 90%”
http://www.aht.org.uk/egss/egspop.html

There is no need to call people a stupid muppet. Especially people that have just had to watch their horse be put down. Shame on you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Mike007 said:
What absolutely stupid muppet wrote this!!!!Quote"Equine grass sickness (EGS) is recognised as a debilitating and invariably fatal disease of horses with cases occurring predominantly, but not exclusively, in northern European countries, particularly Great Britain" Invariably fatal. NO IT IS NOT. Chronic cases can often be saved with the correct care. This has really made me angry! Owners need all the help and moral support they can get without some idiot saying it is invariably fatal.
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rachel12 said:
Frequently fatal. It is!!!!!!

This person is NOT stupid they are trying to help with current research. I have seen the affects GS has on my own horse (who was put down last month thank you very much!) and feel it is a very serious disease which needs a lot more research. I had to watch my horse rapidly deteriorate with a heart rate of 84, constantly muscle tremoring, diarrhea, dribbling, not eating, losing weight and looking so depressed.

The Animal Heath Trust State that:
“Equine grass sickness (EGS) is a frequently fatal disease of horses with a mortality rate in excess of 90%”
http://www.aht.org.uk/egss/egspop.html

There is no need to call people a stupid muppet. Especially people that have just had to watch their horse be put down. Shame on you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Do you understand the difference betwean saying that somthing is invariably fatal and saying that somthing is frequently fatal . I quoted directly from the link and frankly its a pretty big and important mistake to make telling people that there is never any hope.It is tough enough without people making statements like that.
 
Well i am sure it wasn't meant to come across that way at all. I think there is hope. But unfortunately less than 10% make it through GS (see above comment: mortality rate in excess of 90%). My vet told me that horses with chronic GS have a chance and nursing a horse back to health can take years. My horse had sub-acute GS and had to be put down. I do understand that it is hard. It was horrible when my horse was in hospital. One min thinking there is hope then no hope. There is hope then no hope. Up and down and then having to watch my best friend be put to sleep.

I think the person that wrote this comment just wanted people to know what a horrible disease GS is.

Mike007 said:
Do you understand the difference betwean saying that somthing is invariably fatal and saying that somthing is frequently fatal . I quoted directly from the link and frankly its a pretty big and important mistake to make telling people that there is never any hope.It is tough enough without people making statements like that.
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Its not any one on HHo that I have a problem with .But if a "grass sickness surveilance scheme " is set up and the opening paragraph is a complete fallacy. Two things happen,firstly ,any profesional is immediately put off by the amateurism .and secondly and to my mind unforgivable,. Some poor soul desperately seeking help ,reads that there is no hope. I have been there . Those nights when I really wondered whether there was no hope and the kindest thing might be a bullet.I think maybe some folk have missed the point . Go to this "grass sickness surveilance scheme"and read what it actualy says.
 
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